Lots of people even have the private cars needed to drive an hour or two to the mountains near Beijing and some other urban centers.
Some of the most important pieces of legislation passed in the last two years include mountains of regulation (like the financial regulatory overhaul bill, which directly affects JPMorgan Chase and other banks), which have yet to play out.
Grab a plus one and shoot over to the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains for two nights in a luxury room at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
"Where the Map Ends" started with two slaves hiding in the mountains.
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Since Kluane lies on a major fault line, the rubbing of the two plates constantly drives the mountains even higher, so they rise at a rate similar to the speed of growing fingernails.
"I worked as an English teacher in a town in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco for two years, and quickly grew to love this part of the world, " he said.
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Yet mountains and the coastline are two reasons why it might do well going solo.
Gen Troshev said it would take his forces two to three weeks to comb the mountains for remaining small pockets of rebels.
For two days, they have sought among mountains of rubble, of telephones that carried the last wishes and words of love of thousands to the last who would ever hear them, of papers and wires and photographs and files, for a sign of life.
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Outdoor enthusiast Sir Hugh Munro, who gave his name to mountains over 3, 000ft, is listed as a proprietor of two estates with gamekeepers, gardeners, farm workers and labourers - but no Munro mountains.
One of these is the 8km walk from Guankeng to Lingjiao, two tiny villages located further north in the mountains near the Jiangxi-Anhui border.
Two men, they met in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina -- each had moved there to start a new life.
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You might consider the Skyline Drive, a paved road that climbs steeply to two overlooks on the eastern side of the Davis Mountains State Park.
With not one but two private observatories perched next to his home in the mountains above Santa Cruz, Calif.
The Galaxy Note II is also moving mountains, selling five million units in just two months last year.
The floats come in two varieties: yama floats with platforms decorated to resemble mountains and hoko floats dominated by tall wooden poles originally intended to summon the Plague God so that he could be transformed into a protective spirit through music, dance and worship.
On a recent afternoon, Aidan and his parents admitted they were somewhat baffled by the attention for a project that began two years ago on a winter hiking trip through the Catskill Mountains.
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Cleared at the checkpoint, with the hot sun setting over the mountains, I stopped at a gas station to buy two Modelo Especial beers to drink in the car.
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Mr Hollande was meeting with Mr Marti in Paris in his role as one of the two co-monarchs of Andorra, which is situated in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain.
The area where the two got lost is in a section of forest in the Santa Ana Mountains that lies along the border of Orange and Riverside counties southeast of Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, the two Black Hawks were quickly approaching Abbottabad from the northwest, hiding behind the mountains on the northernmost edge of the city.
About 130 trained mountain rescuers were to resume searching Sunday for Ruppert, 29, of Lake City, Florida, who was reported missing Thursday by two friends after he failed to show up at a landing zone in the mountains east of Seattle, authorities said.
Most recently, two people died and eight were injured when a storm struck Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Thursday night, park officials said.
Like so many times before, Rob was up front -- leading a patrol of two dozen Afghans and Americans on a narrow trail along the valley floor, the steep mountains towering over them.
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The two thinner chevrons, which sit either side of the gold chevron, allude to hills and mountains and represent outdoor pursuits that the family enjoy together.
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Two huge hydro-electric power schemes, on Lake Cahora Bassa in Mozambique and in the Lesotho mountains, which will zap electricity across the region, are also being built.
In Phoenix, blowing dust obscured the mountains surrounding the city, and at least four people were injured in a pileup when two semi-trucks jackknifed in a dust storm on I-10 in southern Arizona.
Each submission to the Journal was accompanied by a single-spaced letter of two or three pages, bringing me up to date on his travels, his retreat in the Rocky Mountains, his thoughts on events outside the realm of his columns.
Surrounded by the Pioneer Mountains, Divide was nestled in a flat-backed valley sprinkled with sagebrush and half-burnt two-by-fours, a reminder of when people actually used to live here.
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